Proposals for bond exchanges at par, quasi par or discounted values were divided in two scenarios, depending on whether bond holder participation was below or above 70 per cent.

Moreover, there would be few holdouts that refuse to participate in the exchange. Previous experience suggests that most hold to maturity investors would accept a par bond, while most mark to market investors would accept a discount bond with a higher coupon (that is, a bond with a lower face value) an alternative that could be offered (and has been in the past) to such investors.

In the United States successful Brady Bond plan in 1989, the debtors Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil agreed to pay what they could. The banks that had loaned them the money replaced the old debt with new bonds at par value, which averaged 50 of the old bonds, and the US government provided some sweeteners.

E CN.4 2005 85 Add.2, par. 68 et Add.3, par.

A 58 1, par. Voir rapport préliminaire E CN.4 Sub.2 2004 8, par.

A 59 1, par.

E CN.4 2005 33, par.

E CN.4 2005 36, par.

E CN.4 2005 11, par.

E CN.4 2005 34, par.

E CN.4 2005 35, par.

E CN.4 1997 74, par.

My name is Bond, Jamal Bond.

Governments can offer a menu of new bonds worth some fraction of the value of their existing obligations. Bondholders can be given a choice between par bonds with a face value equal to their existing bonds but a longer maturity and lower interest rate, and discount bonds with a shorter maturity and higher interest rate but a face value that is a fraction of existing bonds face value.

Under the OMT program, the ECB can replace foreign outflows from sovereign bond markets through direct purchases, putting Spain on par with non eurozone countries like the United Kingdom. And, to the extent that there is even an informal price target associated with the ECB s commitment to purchase bonds, foreign outflows, at least from the sovereign bond market, are automatically replaced, in full, with ECB cash.

E CN.4 2005 101 Add.2, par.

E CN.4 2005 64 Add.2, par.

E CN.4 2005 18 Add.3, par.

E CN.4 2005 51 Add.2, par.

Source BCC, rapport 2002 2003 par Kayonga Abbas.

Ibid., par. Voir aussi le rapport du Secrétaire général, Dans une liberté plus grande , A 59 2005, 24 mars 2005, notamment par. 140 et suiv.

The second option offered a quasi par bond, carrying a discount of 30.6 per cent on principal, payable only in pesos, and carrying a low coupon also payable in pesos, a long grace period of 33 years and a final maturity of 41 years (until 2046).

E CN.4 2005 116, par. 103 et suiv.

E CN.4 2005 6 Add.4, par. 67.

E CN.4 2005 60 Add.2, par. 73.

The authorities will issue 35.2 billion in new securities, comprising 15 billion in par bonds, 11.9 billion in discount bonds and 8.3 billion in quasi par bonds.

Bond offering

Some analysts consider Somalia as the failed state par excellence.

It's on par with United States in these two social dimensions.

Prepayments involve paying off at par the outstanding stock of debt.

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The advantage of a par bond is that Greece s creditors banks, insurance companies, and pension funds would be able and allowed to continue valuing their Greek bonds at 100 cents on the euro, thereby avoiding massive losses on their balance sheets. That, in turn, would sharply contain the risk of financial contagion.

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Today surveillance means, in effect, merely giving advice. But in the 1960 s when the IMF still supervised the rules of the Bretton Woods order s par value system before its disintegration in 1971 surveillance was linked to the Fund s effectiveness as a major financial intermediary.

Déclaration et Programme d'action de Vienne, A CONF.157 23, chap. II, par.

Bond lending involves diversified groups of bond holders, including domestic residents, and can be issued under different jurisdictions.

In other words, investors are expecting to receive only about half of what they are owed. The hope is that the reduction in borrowing costs on new loans, plus the austerity programs promised by governments, will enable bond prices to recover to par without the need for the creditor banks to take a hit.

It was very James Bond.

And the life expectancy was 35 to 40 years, on par with Afghanistan today.

The deliberations and decisions are reproduced in the report A CN.9 552, par.

a An option was included to convert US 30 year bond into a US 12 year bond with debt reduction.

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And many others bound in bond.

And many others bound in bond.